Here is a excerpt from the book "Ticket Scalping"
"More than 100 people holding tickets were turned away from Philadelphia's Shibe Park on October 11, 1929, after they showed up for a World Series Game between the Athletics and Chicago Cubs. Entrance was refused because their tickets had passed through the hands of speculators. It was a situation that resulted because the tickets carried a stamp mark that government agents had compelled speculators to affix showing the original and resale price so that the tax could be collected by the IRS and because the Shibe brothers made good on an earlier promise that they would not honor scalper's tickets."
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